tectonic

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Thanks to their location close to tectonic plate fault lines, South Pacific islands are surrounded by potentially enormous mineral deposits.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, critics selected music that shifted the tectonic plates of pop...

From BBC

Each configuration seems contingent, not fixed, as if in a process of perpetual transition driven by some invisible force—tectonic restlessness or a growth hormone, say.

From The Wall Street Journal

However, our drilling efforts recovered the first cores of this material after it has spent tens of millions of years being rafted across the seafloor as Earth's tectonic plates spread apart.

From Science Daily

These events were linked to the Lee-Lincoln fault, a tectonic feature that cuts through the valley floor.

From Science Daily